Executive Order 14337 explained · Executive Order · No disposition noted
Revocation of Executive Order on Competition
Signed: 2025-08-13 Published: 2025-08-19 Federal Register document: 2025-15824
Agencies: Executive Office of the President
Federal Register notes (as of 2026-10-19): Revokes: EO 14036 of July 9, 2021
What Executive Order 14337 says
Federal Register, Volume 90 Issue 158 (Tuesday, August 19, 2025) [Federal Register Volume 90, Number 158 (Tuesday, August 19, 2025)] [Presidential Documents] [Page 40227] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2025-15824] Presidential Documents Federal Register / Vol. 90 , No. 158 / Tuesday, August 19, 2025 / Presidential Documents [[Page 40227]] Executive Order 14337 of August 13, 2025 Revocation of Executive Order on Competition By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Revocation. Executive Order 14036 of July 9, 2021 (Promoting Competition in the American Economy), is hereby revoked. Sec. 2. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect: (i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or (ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals. (b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations. (c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its...
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Executive Order 14337 only revokes a prior executive order and preserves existing statutory authority. It claims no new power, restricts no rights, takes no property, and reduces centralized executive direction, making it fully consistent with the Constitution. The SI review finds no violation.
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✓ Passes · Enumerated powers
Under Article II, Section 1 and Article II, Section 3, the President has authority to manage executive-branch policy and to revoke a prior executive order directed to executive agencies. This order exercises that power only: it revokes Executive Order 14036 and adds no new regulatory mandate, tax, or spending program. It expressly states it does not impair authority granted by law and is subject t… -
✓ Passes · Bill of Rights
This order creates no restriction on speech, religion, press, assembly, arms, search and seizure, trial rights, or other protections in the first ten Amendments. Under the First Amendment and Fourth Amendment, there is no compelled speech, censorship, or search. It removes prior executive direction rather than imposing a new burden, so no Bill of Rights provision is implicated. -
✓ Passes · Individual sovereignty
This order imposes no restriction on person, property, speech, labor, or belief. It removes an executive competition-policy overlay rather than compelling private conduct. With no burden imposed, the government needs no additional compelling justification, and individual sovereignty under the Ninth Amendment and the liberty protected by the Fifth Amendment is left intact or enlarged. -
✓ Passes · Decentralization
Under the Tenth Amendment, revocation moves power away from centralized presidential direction of competition policy and returns discretion to Congress, agencies acting under statute, states, markets, and courts. It does not consolidate decision-making upward; it withdraws a higher-level directive. The four-question test is satisfied in direction because the federal executive is reducing its own f… -
✓ Passes · Due process and takings
Under the Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause and Takings Clause, there is no deprivation of life, liberty, or property, no criminal process, no seizure, and no taking for public use. Section 2 expressly preserves authority granted by law, requires implementation consistent with applicable law, and creates no new enforceable burden, so notice, hearing, and just compensation requirements are not tri…
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